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"I actually fear that Calzaghe will do all match spoiling efforts to try to block me out of the game," says WBC/WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (39-0, 29 KOs) . "So I´ll obviously have to face him the hardest way of all and smash him within the distance."
Now just 12 days away from the much anticipated super middle triple unification clash with fellow undefeated WBO reigning Joe Calzalge on November 3/4 at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff), Kessler has heated up the verbal assault.
"Calzaghe is going to use every effort and any trick to avoid me in clean fighting," commented Kessler. "From first bell I´ll be prepared to beat my way out of infighting in a very rough way. I expect Calzaghe´s chin to take my first punch and also the second. But take my word, the third one will explode him to stagger - and the fourth will stop him and the fight as well...!"
Last weekend, Kessler ended a couple of weeks´ successful sparring with capable Belfast southpaw Brian Magee. This week in Copenhagen Kessler and chief coach Ricard Olsen pay their final attention to defining tactical details before heading to Cardiff next Sunday.
"I´ll do just a few rounds of technical sparring this week before going to Wales," he said. "I´ve been preparing for this fight since last June, so I´ve got everything crystal clear in my mind."
The federations involved have nominated Connecticut based Mike Ortega as referee at the full crowded Millennium Stadium, but still the American is subject to commission approval or change.